Education: Only half of beer drinkers in Scotland knew that a unit of beer is a half pint.

Education: Only 36% of Scottish men know the correct recommended daily limit of alcohol for men.

Addiction: 1 in 4 UK adults is drinking hazardously (38% of men, and 15% of women).

Addiction: 43% of young men, and 24% of young women (aged 16-24) in Scotland exceed weekly limits.

Children: 4 out of 10 fifteen-year-old have drunk alcohol in the past week.

Teenagers: Emergency admissions for acute intoxication in Scotland are highest among 15-19 year-olds.

Poverty: Men living in the most deprived areas are seven times more likely to die of an alcohol-related death, and seven times more likely to be admitted to an acute hospital with an alcohol-related illness than those in the least deprived areas.

Homelessness: Over half of Glasgow’s homeless people drink hazardously. Many people end up on the streets due to their alcohol addiction in the first place - a terrible vicious circle.

Crime: Over half of male prisoners in the UK were drinking hazardously in the year before coming to prison.

Violent Crime: Of those victims of violent crime in Scotland who could tell anything about their assailant, 72% reported that the assailant was under the influence of alcohol.

Murder: Of the 88 people accused of homicide in Scotland in 2000, for whom the drink status was known, 61% were drunk.

Death: 1 in 5 road accident deaths in Scotland in 1999 was due to drink driving.

Death: Nearly half of adult pedestrian fatalities in the UK have been drinking, and 1 in 3 had alcohol levels over the legal limit for driving.

Death: Misuse of alcohol is a contributory factor in over half of the deaths caused by fire in Scotland.

Suicide: 53% of suicides in Scotland who had been in contact with services in the 12 months before death had a history of alcohol misuse.

Treatment: One in ten men in the UK spoke to their doctor in the past year about drinking.

Treatment: 15% of all psychiatric hospital admissions had an alcohol-related diagnosis.

Figures from the Plan for Action on alcohol problems, www.scotland.gov.uk/health/alcoholproblems